• Victoria Antoinette
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    -14 months ago

    I can’t buy a TV with turquoise either. or sumerian shillings.

    • @Pratai
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      34 months ago

      And what does that tell you? That maybe those things aren’t legal currency??

      • @[email protected]
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        -14 months ago

        Then US Dollar isn’t legal currency everywhere outside of USSA. You can’t just go to shop and buy groceries with it.

        • @Pratai
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          04 months ago

          It’s exchangeable. Go to a money exchange and see how much your bitcoin is worth.

      • Victoria Antoinette
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        -34 months ago

        now you’re shifting the goalposts. why should modern legal standards define a universal anthropolgical phenomenon?

        • @Pratai
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          24 months ago

          No goalpost has been moved. Currency is clearly defined. So whatever other valuable item you try and offer up as an example will be dismissed as well.

          • Victoria Antoinette
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            04 months ago

            we were discussing money. it’s not narrowly defined by what the US government decrees. it’s a universal phenomenon across all cultures that predates even written records. do you accept barley corn as payment? the answer doesn’t matter because people have used it as money regardless.